Nessus Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Tenable Nessus
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Nessus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 118 129
Rank change year-on-year -45 +11 +53
Contract jobs citing Nessus 11 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.32% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.05% 1.71% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £289 - £453
25th Percentile £325 - £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.66%
75th Percentile £550 - £588
90th Percentile £610 - -
England median daily rate £450 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -21.74% -4.17% +26.32%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

Nessus falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 537 234 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.70% 10.84% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 147 211
10th Percentile £213 £185 £188
25th Percentile £403 £309 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +15.29% -10.53%
75th Percentile £569 £559 £529
90th Percentile £648 £677 £650
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.59% +1.95% -10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 3
10th Percentile - £12.18 £15.34
25th Percentile £16.25 £12.94 £16.24
Median hourly rate £36.00 £16.19 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +122.36% -8.63% -12.93%
75th Percentile £77.25 £17.89 £36.36
90th Percentile £77.40 £18.13 £47.54
England median hourly rate £48.00 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +81.13% -42.62% -2.78%

Nessus
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Nessus relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Nessus job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Nessus
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Nessus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Nessus

Nessus
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Nessus in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Nessus in the Midlands

Nessus
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Nessus within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -32 11 £475 - 1
Nessus
England

Nessus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (63.64%) Confluence
1 7 (63.64%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Amazon ELB
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
1 8 (72.73%) Azure
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft 365
1 8 (72.73%) Route 53
1 8 (72.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon S3
2 7 (63.64%) AWS KMS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (9.09%) CloudFront
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) DNS
1 8 (72.73%) Firewall
2 7 (63.64%) FTP
2 7 (63.64%) HTTP
2 7 (63.64%) IMAP
2 7 (63.64%) OpenLDAP
2 7 (63.64%) SMTP
2 7 (63.64%) SSH
3 1 (9.09%) Anycast
3 1 (9.09%) BGP
3 1 (9.09%) DMVPN
3 1 (9.09%) IPsec
3 1 (9.09%) MPLS
3 1 (9.09%) Multicast
3 1 (9.09%) NGFW
3 1 (9.09%) OSPF
3 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) JIRA
2 7 (63.64%) Git
2 7 (63.64%) Jenkins
2 7 (63.64%) Vagrant
3 1 (9.09%) AppScan
3 1 (9.09%) Burp Suite
3 1 (9.09%) Metasploit
General
1 7 (63.64%) Presentation Skills
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
3 3 (27.27%) Finance
4 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) AWS Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) AWS DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Python Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Server Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) LDAP
2 2 (18.18%) FastAPI
2 2 (18.18%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Operational Technology
2 1 (9.09%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Linux
1 9 (81.82%) Windows
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon Linux
2 7 (63.64%) Ubuntu
2 7 (63.64%) VMS
3 1 (9.09%) Kali Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 8 (72.73%) Cloud Security
2 8 (72.73%) Configuration Management
3 7 (63.64%) Change Management
3 7 (63.64%) DevOps
3 7 (63.64%) Patch Management
3 7 (63.64%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (63.64%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) API Development
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Observability
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (9.09%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Interactive Application Security Testing
6 1 (9.09%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 1 (9.09%) Secrets Management
6 1 (9.09%) Servant Leadership
6 1 (9.09%) Static Application Security Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 7 (63.64%) Groovy
2 7 (63.64%) PowerShell
2 7 (63.64%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) AWS Certification
1 7 (63.64%) Azure Certification
1 7 (63.64%) Degree
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) COBIT
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) Docker
2 7 (63.64%) DFS Replication
2 7 (63.64%) Dovecot
2 7 (63.64%) Postfix
2 7 (63.64%) Squid
3 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
4 1 (9.09%) Terminal Services
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Grafana
1 9 (81.82%) Prometheus
2 7 (63.64%) Proxmox
2 7 (63.64%) Terraform
3 2 (18.18%) Control-M
3 2 (18.18%) IBM Guardium
3 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
4 1 (9.09%) Ansible
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
4 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Jaspersoft
1 7 (63.64%) ServiceNow
2 3 (27.27%) Tenable
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco
4 1 (9.09%) CyberArk
4 1 (9.09%) Dell
4 1 (9.09%) LogRhythm
4 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds
4 1 (9.09%) Splunk
4 1 (9.09%) Veeam
4 1 (9.09%) Veracode
4 1 (9.09%) VMware